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net: fib: fib6_add: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

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When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES, and we return
with an error in fn = fib6_add_1(), then error codes are encoded into
the return pointer e.g. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT). In such an error case, we
write the error code into err and jump to out, hence enter the if(err)
condition. Now, if CONFIG_IPV6_SUBTREES is enabled, we check for:

  if (pn != fn && pn->leaf == rt)
    ...
  if (pn != fn && !pn->leaf && !(pn->fn_flags & RTN_RTINFO))
    ...

Since pn is NULL and fn is f.e. ERR_PTR(-ENOENT), then pn != fn
evaluates to true and causes a NULL-pointer dereference on further
checks on pn. Fix it, by setting both NULL in error case, so that
pn != fn already evaluates to false and no further dereference
takes place.

This was first correctly implemented in 4a287eba2 ("IPv6 routing,
NLM_F_* flag support: REPLACE and EXCL flags support, warn about
missing CREATE flag"), but the bug got later on introduced by
188c517a0 ("ipv6: return errno pointers consistently for fib6_add_1()").

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Lin Ming <mlin@ss.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@nsn.com>
Cc: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Acked-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@nsn.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Daniel Borkmann 2013-09-07 15:13:20 +02:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 3bf4b5b11d
commit ae7b4e1f21
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net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c
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@ -825,9 +825,9 @@ int fib6_add(struct fib6_node *root, struct rt6_info *rt, struct nl_info *info)
fn = fib6_add_1(root, &rt->rt6i_dst.addr, rt->rt6i_dst.plen,
offsetof(struct rt6_info, rt6i_dst), allow_create,
replace_required);
if (IS_ERR(fn)) {
err = PTR_ERR(fn);
fn = NULL;
goto out;
}